A container ship lost a record 1,800 containers

Re:A container ship lost a record 1,800 containers by LeifCarrotson on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:32AM (#25333074)

I wonder when it becomes more economical to load top level containers with cheap goods and keep the multi-million-dollar containers somewhere safer.

You'd need some significant automation and integration with all the port-side trucks, forklifts, and cranes that unload and load your ship to make sure that containers arrive and depart in the right order. You could then offer customers lower insurance premiums (or let them pay more for interior space) because average loss would be reduced. But that would take a huge amount of vertical integration or an industry-wide cooperation effort and cost sensitivity that I don't think is present.

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Re:A container ship lost a record 1,800 containers by lolc on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:47AM (#25333256)

Loading is already very complex and takes special knowledge and more and more software to balance the ship and keep the loading-process efficient. Dangerous goods are separated from the quarters as much as possible for example. I'm sure the process already includes variables like value.

But I also assume that overall, unless we talk about unique items like artwork, not enough containers are lost to put much weight on the value of the contents compared to everything else.

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